One thing to remember though is that disease crossing the barrier between species are common and most don’t become global pandemic. In fact SARS was bad but locally contained, MERS was almost nothing, and fears of the avian and swine flues were vastly overblown for example. So the right attitude should probably be cautious rather than worried—for now.
One thing to remember though is that disease crossing the barrier between species are common and most don’t become global pandemic. In fact SARS was bad but locally contained, MERS was almost nothing, and fears of the avian and swine flues were vastly overblown for example. So the right attitude should probably be cautious rather than worried—for now.